...We were lucky. We landed on an Austrian who saved father. For money. He put him up on a peasant estate in the Alps, with false Austrian papers... The only person who lived with father in that house was a maid, an Italian woman. We (the family) lived elsewhere in San Egilgen. We reported to the Americans, as this zone was under American control... We met up with our father one to three times a week, in the woods. He spent his time in the woods, picking mushrooms and catching fish. He even sent us some of these and we in turn sent him some of the bread rations we had received. One day at the end of summer 1945, it was raining and mother wasn't feeling well and she asked me to go out and meet father. I found him alone in the woods, with a backpack, preparing to escape. When he had gone home the maid had waved as signal that the police were there.
